UNITED STATES v. MANBECK

Crim. No. 80-278.

514 F.Supp. 152 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America v. Robert John MANBECK, Thomas Manbeck, Kenneth Herring, Gary Gallopo, Mark Huiet Sale, David Martin Summerville, Lorenz Josephus Proden, Kermit Theodore Brogden, John O'Hare, Eddie Brantley, Thomas Earnest Folske, Thomas Sams Hightower, Timothy Alan Laxton, Harrel Lewis, Jr., John Isidore Stevens, Aaron Douglas Staetter, John Michael Iyoob, James Anthony Hastings, John Benjamin Barton, Jr., John Wesley Flannel, Jessie Lee Mallory, Arthur Duncan, and Gregory Michael Scott.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

May 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel S. Lofton, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C. and Cameron B. Littlejohn, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

Mark Kadish, Rhonda A. Brofman, Kadish, Davis & Brofman, P. C., Atlanta, Ga., and Gedney M. Howe, III, Howe & Howe, Charleston, S. C., for defendants Thomas Manbeck and Herring.

Michael L. Pritzker, Marcia L. Smith, Stroup, Goldstein, Jenkins & Pritzker, Chicago, Ill. and Dennis E. O'Neill, Burkett, Guerard, Wooddy, Bargmann, Cisa & O'Neill, Mount Pleasant, S. C., for defendant Gallopo.

Edward Garland, Austin E. Catts, John R. Hesmer, Garland, Nuckolls & Catts, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants Sale and Proden.

Mark C. Tannenbaum, Charleston, S. C., Local Counsel, for defendant Sale.

R. David Botts, Harper, Wiggins & Botts, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Summerville.

Gedney M. Howe, III, Howe & Howe, Charleston, S. C., for defendants Proden, Brogden and Summerville.

Arthur G. Howe, Paul Uricchio, Barry Krell, Uricchio, Howe & Krell, P. A., Charleston, S. C., for defendants O'Hare, Brantley, Folske, Hightower, Lewis, Laxton and Stevens.

Edwin Marger and Diane Marger, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants Staetter, Iyoob, Hastings and Scott.

Peden B. McLeod, McLeod, Fraser & Unger, Walterboro, S. C., for defendants Staetter, Iyoob, Hastings and Scott, Barton, Mallory and Duncan and Flannel.

Donald B. Walker, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants Barton, Mallory and Duncan.

Robert G. Fierer, Steven Westby, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant Flannel.


ORDER

HAWKINS, District Judge.

This case involves a four-count indictment1 against twenty-three defendants alleging various drug-related charges arising out of a drug smuggling operation which took place at Bennett's Point, South Carolina, in November 1980.

Numerous motions were filed by the defendants in this case. This order deals with two of these motions.

I. VIOLATION OF SPEEDY TRIAL ACT

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